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...sentiment, or lack of it, is common in the business. As one eminent three-year-old after another fell apart this spring - Deputy Minister, Stalwart, Lets Dont Fight, et al. - the horsemen's reaction was generally to shrug and say, "This is racing." But the fans tend more to be of the Black Beauty school of horse lovers, and the anthropomorphizing before the 108th Derby was fierce...
Meagher, the Crimson's star-crossed midfield stalwart, will see action for the first time in over a year this weekend as shooter in the team's power play. The knee cartilage of the former All-American has healed enough that he participates in non-contact and one-on-one drills at practice, though not enough to warrant excessive running or to risk taking an aggressive...
Cornell's hopes rest largely with its pitching staff, which might help stalwart Greg Myers enough to propel the Big Red to number one. Now a senior co-captain, Myers has 18 wins in the past three years to his credit and is currently 1-0 in 1982. Voted the best pitcher in the Cape Cod League this summer, the right hander has also been All-League three years...
DIED. Vasili Chuikov, 82, Russian military commander and hero of the Soviets' stalwart defense of Stalingrad during World War II. Chuikov accepted the German surrender of Berlin and headed the Soviet occupation forces in East Germany from...
...Lady of American Letters." In an essay on her 1968 trip to Hanoi, Sontag described herself as "a Western neoradical for whom revolution means not only creating political and economic justice but releasing and validating personal energies of all kinds, including erotic ones." McCarthy, who has long been a stalwart of the anti-Soviet left, was among those who stood up for Sontag after her Solidarity speech. "I don't see how calling [the situation in Poland] 'fascism' helps anyone to understand it," wrote McCarthy. "Nevertheless, I am for Susan for sticking her neck out and using...